About Me

I am a proud, former public school teacher. As mentioned, I have taught at the elementary and middle school level in culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse communities as a classroom teacher and as a K-5 instructional coach. 

I earned my Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before that, I earned a B.S. in elementary education and a M.A. in teaching from Ohio University and George Mason University respectively. I also hold a current Ohio teaching certificate (grades 1-8).

In my position as Director of the OHIO Center for Equity in Mathematics and Science, I spend a lot of time in classrooms and schools collaborating alongside teacher-colleagues with children and families in various outreach and working with others on research projects. I am also an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education in the Early Childhood-Elementary Education program where I teach diversity courses and mathematics methods courses. I have also taught graduate courses in areas such as practitioner inquiry/action research and STEM education. 

My scholarship centers on equity, diversity, justice, and critical literacies and pedagogies in early childhood and elementary education, teacher education, and mathematics education. I am especially interested in how to collaborate with teachers to take up critical pedagogies and understanding how we can come to develop more progressive, child-centered, and humane stances and practices towards teaching, learning, and schooling.

I have received over 20 grants from federal, state, and local agencies, including the National Science Foundation. My current projects include the Connecting Math to the Real World project and I just finished the Rally for STEM Noyce Teaching Fellowship project.

I currently live in a small university town in Appalachia Ohio, home to a large public university. I love living in a walkable neighborhood that is close to campus, local public schools, places to eat and drink, a public library, grocery stores, a bike path, and other great things.

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